The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-17
PERSONAL.

THE salary of Mr.. Spencer as President of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is S25 200
year
CHARLES CARROLL of Maryland, and his bride,
Historian Bancroft's granddaughter, will sail
for Europe in a few days.
THE painting Of Gen Sheridan, given by Mr..
G. W. Childs to West Point, has been placed on
view at the War Department in Washington.
MISS KATE FIELD has been delighting the Cali
fornians with her literary and musical enter
tainments She will spend Christmas in the
East
CONGRESSMAN ScoTT spent $4,000 in enter
tanning last season in Washington, and he Dro-
poses to drop similar amount this season. He
deserves well of his caterer.
Mr.. LABoUcHERE graciously remarks that the
royal family of England treat the ex Empress
Eugene kindly only because they hope to be re-
membered largely in her will.
THERE are nine Harvard graduates in the
Fiftieth Congress. They are Senators Hoer and
Pasco and Representatives Hayden, Long, Perry,
Adams, Lodge, Burnett and Belmont.
MIR. THOMAS ADoLPHUs TRoLLoPE will spend
the winter at Rome, and return to England in
the early summer. He has not spent winter
north OF the Alps for nearly forty years.
OLIVER o. boutwell,. of Troy, N. Y, is 90
years of age and is actively engaged in business
He is as vigorous as a man III the prime of life.
He jumps off a street-car with the agility of a
boy.
PRoT TYNDALL says he agrees with Mr. Froude
i'll thinking that to men of the requisite quail
ties, which include sympathy, Justice and iron
flrmness, it would be an easy task to govern
Ireland.
MISS GRACE MATTHEW'S daughter of Justice
Stanley Matthews, will spend the winter at
Princeton, N. j., keeping house for her brother,
who is preparing TO enter the ministry of the
Presbyterian church
THE weather throughout the country has
resolutely refused to be predicted, SO to speak,
this season. Gen. Greedy is, naturally, very
much annoyed. He should obtain writs to make
every delinquent cold wave show cause why it
did not arrive on time.
THE authorship of the poem 'If l Should Die
Tonight" attributed to Mr.. Beecher for years,
has been traced to Miss Belle E. Smith, former
student and at present a teacher at Tabor Col
lege, at Tabor, la. 1t first appeared in the CHI
tidn Union, June 8, 1873.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is editing the fly sheet
of The Weekly Record, of Sussex, N B. He
shows the same economy in the use of the
definite article and the same fondness for a STAG
cato style OF expression which have heretofore
marked his journalistic efforts.
CONGRESSMAN MARTIN, of Texas, who succeeds
Senator Reagan in the House, is uncompromis-
ing in his opposition to the civil service law
Its humbug, he declares. Il believe in the
doctrine that TO the victors belong the spoils "
Mr.. Martin is the man who blew out the gas in
his hotel room.
LOUIS JuDsoN SwINBuRNE, of Albany, who
died the other day at Colorado Springs, during
his freshman year at Yale wrote an essay on
civilian Blacks Novels, which Mr. Black in
personal letter TO the young man. declared TO
be the most just and discriminating analysis of
his works that had been printed.
ELIHU vEDDER, whose work is sometimes
spoken of as the best imaginative art of modern
times, has brow and eyes like those of Haw-
thorne. though the artist is fair while the
romancer was dark The forehead is broad and
thoughtful, the eyes are intelligent, frank and
kindly, but the mouth and chin are those of a
very matter-of-fact man.
H. CLEMENCEAU, now prominent figure in
French politics, resided in New York for years
immediately after our civil war. NJ. Clemenceau
taught French ina school at Greenwich Conn.,
and after obtaining the consent of his father in
France, who was a man of means he married
one OF his pupils, Miss Mary Il. Clemmer, the
ceremony being performed by Mr.. A. Oakley
Hall. the Mayer OF New York.